| School of Art, Art History, and Design Newsletter | SAAHD students, faculty, and alumni create extraordinary art and scholarship. Our monthly newsletter will keep you up to date.
Please submit your news and images for consideration for a future newsletter. We'd love to share your accomplishments! | | | | Welcome back, Hawkeyes! Classes begin August 26. We can't wait to see what our students, faculty, and alumni will create in the coming months.
Keep an eye on the SAAHD website for visiting artists, exhibitions, and more. | | | Brant Weiland is the new Sculpture and Intermedia Studio Specialist, starting this semester. Brant received his MFA from the SAAHD in 2023. We are excited to welcome him back!
brantweiland.com | @brant_weiland | | | | Monica Vree and Amelia Goldsby (Art History PhD students) co-curated the exhibition Alternate Paths: New Object Histories from Africa to America at the Stanely Museum of Art.
A collaborative effort with students at the University of Indiana and curators of African art Cory Gundlach (Stanley Museum) and Allison Martino (Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art), the exhibition runs from August 2024 to February 2025. | | | Antonia Baafi's (MFA Jewelry and Metal Arts student) body piece "Consume - Take Over" was selected for the Nature of Imperfection exhibition with the Society of Arts + Crafts. View the catalog online. | | | | Rush Baker IV is the 2024-25 Grant Wood Fellow in Painting and Drawing.
Baker embraces uncertainty in his painting practice, blending real and digital elements across diverse media. His method involves printing collaged images, layering them with plaster, concrete, paint, and resin to create textured works that reflect the urgency and chaos of the socio-political climate.
rushbakerstudio.com | @rushbkr | | | Matthew Willie Garcia is the 2024-25 Grant Wood Fellow in Printmaking.
Garcia's work moves far beyond the traditional print media, and includes screen printing, mokuhanga, projection-mapping, animation, and large-scale installation. Driven by a passion for both science and science fiction, Garcia explores his queer identity and the mysteries that lie within the vast universe.
matthewwilliegarcia.com | @matthewwilliegarcia | | | | Jillian Moore (MFA Jewelry and Metal Arts 2008) was awarded an Iowa Artist Fellowship. Moore is one of five artists receiving $10,000 from the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The fellowship recognizes artists who demonstrate exceptional creativity and a commitment to contributing to the vitality of the arts in Iowa.
jillianmoore.net | @phlaznatch | | | | Misha Burstein (MA Intermedia 2001) and Matthew Butler (MFA Intermedia 2003) exhibited a collaborative weather music application and intermedia art project titled Monsoon Station, which won a Jurors’ Award in CUMULUS: The Art of Meteorology (June-September 2024) at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, AZ.
Burstein is a Senior Training and Development Specialist in the Research, Innovation & Impact department at the University of Arizona. Butler is a Research Manager in the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio at the University of Iowa. | | | Sandra Louise Dyas (MFA Intermedia 1998) has a solo retrospective, TANGLED UP IN TIME, at Cornell College, August 27 - October 6.
Representing nearly 40 years of work, the show includes photography, collage, video art, and black-and-white photographs from her book Down to the River; Portraits of Iowa Musicians (University of Iowa Press, 2007).
Dyas taught photography, drawing and intermedia art at Cornell College for 25 years. Opening Reception: August 30, 4-6pm; Homecoming Reception: October 5, 3-5pm.
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